Ukip storm to victory in the European Elections making electoral history

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10855972/Ukip-storms-European-elections.html

Ukip storm to victory in the European Elections, marking the first time in over 100 years that neither the Tories or Labour have won a national election


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The UK Independence Party has won a national election for the first time, taking the most votes and seats in the European Parliament elections.

The Ukip victory came as anti-establishment parties advanced across the European Union, with the Front Nationalé winning in France.

The win for Ukip, which was only founded in 1993 and does not have a single MP or council leader, is the biggest challenge to Britain’s main parties for decades.

Ukip gained ten new MEPs and finished taking 27.5 per cent of the vote and 23 MEPs.

Labour won 25.4 per cent, narrowly ahead of the Conservatives on 24 per cent. Scotland and Northern Ireland are still to declare their results. Both parties have 18 MEPs so far.

The result was the first time since 1910 that a national election was not won by either the Conservatives or Labour.

The Liberal Democrats on 7 per cent were losing a humiliating fight for fourth place to the Greens in 8 per cent and narrowly averted the “shattering” loss of all their MEPs.

Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, said the outcome would “terrify” the older parties and predicted his party could now go on to hold the balance of power at Westminster. The European result marks “the most extraordinary result in 100 years,” he said.


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When a wedding party bumped into Nigel Farage last night in his hotel...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfDvBkMfrbs&feature=youtu.be

The race towards the 2015 General Election starts now for all parties, the challenge facing Nigel Farage and Ukip now is managing to turn this historic victory into Westminster seats under a FPTP electoral system.... an uphill battle. How fun it is to watch the three cartel parties running about headless, and their friends in the media scratching their heads asking how and why the smear campaign that they've ran for the past few weeks has utterly failed.


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And usually I wouldn't be concerned about something like this as I don't care what colour/religion or sexuality politicians are, but considering the stereotypes we're usually forced into and the smears that are applied this news has made me smile...


Harry Aldridge @harryaldridge · 8h

Worth saying again - UKIP now has more ethnic minority and female MEPs than the Lib-Dems do in the House of Commons. Lol.

In terms of millions of votes rounded up and down...

Ukip 4.4m votes
Labour 4m votes
Conservatives 3.8m
Greens 1.1m
Liberal Democrats 1.1m

Thoughts?

[Unusual]

i am literally over ukip and the people of britain

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[lRhyss]

My faith in humanity has gone out of the window.

[Kardan]

A Lib Dem spokesman was asked what he thought of UKIP's success in the European elections.

"******* UKIP," he said, "coming around here, stealing our jobs!"

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My faith in humanity has gone out of the window.

It should have gone out of the window when Labour were re-elected in 2005 after invading Iraq on a lie and leading to millions dead, really.

[lRhyss]

It should have gone out of the window when Labour were re-elected in 2005 after invading Iraq on a lie and leading to millions dead, really.

A lot of it went then, but the rest has just gone now.

[-:Undertaker:-]

A lot of it went then, but the rest has just gone now.

Much if not most of the Labour frontbench remaining today in 2014 voted for the invasion of Iraq back in 2003.

[akeel$]

That's really interesting.
Cool article.

[Evanora]

its the end of times

[FlyingJesus]

Saw Farage on the news making a little verbal mistake but don't think anyone else seemed to notice it, tickled me though: "we've done what no-one has done in over 100 years. We've won an election" just made me giggle

[iBlueBox]

my reaction pmsl


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

[Michael]

Good to see, hopefully they can keep it up to the GE.

UKIP has been on and off trending on Twitter for the past 5 days in the UK, just been reading some of these tweets, here are some of the looniest:


james bond ‏@queenjapseye 18m
@UKIP you're a waste of time and a waste of space with this society. Stop wasting the public's money on trying to win elections


lucinda. ‏@__lucindaa 23h
just started crying when i heard about ukip and im now begging my mum to lett us move to canada


@_M_A_R_II_A_ May 26
Y is everyone crying over UKIP ? They wont come into power .. The gov wont allow it


m a y 3 0 t h !!!!!! ‏@Nee_xo 48m
😑how can u legalise rape....#ukip😑


daisy ‏@anaIfistings 10h
I blocked one of my best friends on here because he said that ukip weren't racist and he also said that females are the reason for rape-

This lot have been bottle-fed too much Daily Mail.

[The Don]

Good to see, hopefully they can keep it up to the GE.

UKIP has been on and off trending on Twitter for the past 5 days in the UK, just been reading some of these tweets, here are some of the looniest:











This lot have been bottle-fed too much Daily Mail.

Do you even read the Daily Mail? Pretty sure it's targeted towards the Ukip demographic and full of the same sensationalist rubbish.

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Do you even read the Daily Mail? Pretty sure it's targeted towards the Ukip demographic and full of the same sensationalist rubbish.

I read the Daily Mail everyday and I can tell you that for the past few weeks in the run-up to the election, it's been publishing one or two anti-Ukip stories every single day and even had to pay Mrs Farage libel damages after going too far in a smear piece it had written. The pro-Tory Daily Mail also supports Britain's membership of the European Union which is another little known fact so it's little wonder they went out shooting at the purples non-stop. The Daily Mail failed in it's smear campaign as did the pro-Tory Telegraph and the pro-Labour Guardian, Independent and Daily Mirror.

The notion that the Mail has been helping Ukip or aiding it is nonsense, not one national newspaper backed us.

[Michael]

Do you even read the Daily Mail? Pretty sure it's targeted towards the Ukip demographic and full of the same sensationalist rubbish.

Now and again, or otherwise I wouldn't have made the comment. Unsure how you relate the Daily Mail readers to the UKIP demographic though!

[Ardemax]

Now and again, or otherwise I wouldn't have made the comment. Unsure how you relate the Daily Mail readers to the UKIP demographic though!

Daily Mail readers = typically old, anti-immigration, anti-EU, anti-welfare.
UKIP = see above.

[MKR&*42]

All seriousness aside, I lold at "They wont come into power .. The gov wont allow it".